Moral possibility

    | it was past credence in a divine creator that informed the Western concept of morality
        : re `past credence in a divine creator`
          cf. `^*\(15\) belief in either of the design explanantia would be justified$` @
          20.evident_creator.brec : once again, that is, in the present as in the past
    | it was [our] *past* credence in a divine creator that informed
      the|our [present|Western] concept of morality [[here] in the West]


    | a past consensus that in passing left the concept in its present form
    | and the [frozen] memory of it|{that [past] consensus} {[now] holds}|{continues to hold}
      that|the concept fixed in [its present] form [today]


    | [now] with the prospect of a renewed consensus in mind, I turn to investigate
      whether such credence could once again anchor a sense of morality that,
      in its present state, might best be described as adrift
        !! somehow falls flat here, who cares whether it drifts or not?
            | bend it more toward the argument
                | {the concept}|it|{the|its [fixed] form} is one|that of moral law
                  [and I take|pick up the matter from there]